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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 25, 1920)
5 B A fcHtht Apollo' luta, atrvar with bis balr And wboa Uvo spka, th vote of all th fo4t. Mha kravan rowy with th barnonv. Hoard maladies ar wt. but tb unbtard Ar iwootcrt thrlori, ye olt pip, play os, Pip to th spirit dittl ol no ton. KaU. THE OMAHA SUNDAY T5EE: JANUARY 25. 1920. How to Meet Dull Quiet OfJLife By BEATRICE FAIRFAX. tf ho aceaplM ' anlqo oIMob m writar on topics of lova and cnarrlaffo. "Tbas ar th tft I ask Of Th, Spirit Serena: 8trn(ln (or th dally task, Court; to fae th road. Good rhir to. help zn bear tbe traveler's load. , . And for th hour of rest That com between. An Inward joy In all thing beard and seen. "Kipling. We can't always live in big mo ments of emotion. Life isn't all u:.u . - l l i" i . The steepest mountain slopes away to foothills. The most moun tainous country has its passes and ravines. Great stretches of level plain lie across every land. So the most tumultuous life has placid moments. The most eventful career has its quiet hoars. And of course there are - lives wliich have no high lights, no moments of emotion, no vividness nothing. There are lives which seem doomed to remain in a backwater, without tides or storms or radiant sunshine. Neither sorrow jior joy visits them. Only a vast lonetiness. Every day letters come to me from city and country from 'village and town; And the burden of many of them is something like this: "Nothing ever happens to me. I'm so lonely I don't know what to do. I don't seem to have opportunties for meeting people. I just go on nd on until I'm desperate. Can't you help me to meet the right people?" ? . And, sadly enough, in most cases I can't, -a Stop and think about it. My cor. respondents are unknown friends who write to me from the 'great spaces of a busy world. Our paths don't cross. They can't. There aren't enough hours in the day for me to see or write personally to all the dear unknown friends I long to help. And just because we aren't going to meet and suffer the embar rassments of adjustment one to the other, those dear friends out tn spate can write me with all th greater frankness. We're spirits to each other, and aren t hampered by our human, prejudices and attrae tions. Nor can I risk making these un known known to each other. Human nature isn t safe enough for that. All ! cart do is give counsel out of tny own experiences, and the first word of advice to all lonely souls is embodied in this little bit of verse'. . "Patience a littlei Learn to wait. Years are long on the clock of ' fate. If only youth would be patient. it only it would wait the good and true and not seize .rashly on what ever life -presents. So often youth takes a cheap substitute for the companionship and love it craves, afnd just when it is too late to be ;free of the ugly entagtement and us wnsequence, aiong comet vile offering its best gifts. , There are so many things to tide .us over -the drab and quiet days. First, there's the strength to do ..what the day requires and to do it so well that the .mere doing gives ocep eaiisiacuon. xnen tnere sthe courage tb. smile and believe that the longest road must emerge from 'the woods at last and come out inter Cli A 'm ettnekm. TL...'. t.:J which looks about and sees chances to help others. And there's the joy which finds beautiful refreshment in the soarkle of sunshine on snow. the shadow of trees seen through. rog. tne radiance of light coming to disperse pale dawn. , . , .' Joy of the soul is the supreme gift of the Spirit Serene. Please don't laugh with the arrogance of youth, and deride I don't know a thing about it I do know. Satisfy ing the body can ntjver give the fine radiance of feeling which comes from satisfying the soul. Satisfying the soul satisfies the body, too. There's a radiant warmth, a sense of well-being, a feeling of nplift to be found in spir itual joys. And bodily ones depart leaving nothing but a dull thud of reaction. V. i How do you feel when you've eat en too much dfnner? Heavy, loggy; desirous of nothing but to slip away somewhere and sleep off your tef weariness. How do vou feel when vou'veoi- loted a poor old blind man arfoss the street? Uplifted, pleased with yourself, inclined to believe that there's lot of kindness jh the 'world. , ' . , If you're lonely and bored, just " remember that you are one of a vast company, and that probably most of the others are worse off .than you. If you don't know what to do with yourself, go out and seek someone who's more in reed of kindness and help than you aie. . Most lonely folks seek nothing in the yorlJ but a mate. Tfcey-are flattering themselves that they have a unique and interesting problem, when the only problem they present is the age-old one 'that is also the problem of the wolf and' the bear. But when man learned to walk up tight and look'at the stars he devel oped a few qualities bevond the primitive instincts. And who wants to confess -himself nothing but an animal? So don't go' whimpering through life about your loneliness the mat ing instinct, no. more but march around with your head up and seek a human chance to 'do someone else a rood turn. There fleyer was a better idea than the requirement made of the Boy . Scout namely, to do a good deed every cav. It would be a wise plan for us al( to adopt. Then we'd all be good scouts. And we'd have ....... ... 1. A a .. f V. A.. 1 .1 hours. - ' t One of the finest; private collec tions of pearls is that in oossession ' of' the Dowager Queen Margherita of Italy, whose birthday present from her husband, the late King Humbert, was always a string of these gems of the loveliest kind and perfectly matched. 'Tier majesty wears eight rows found her throat .And - four Jong ropes, representing 21 strmars. one for each of the birth" CLUBDOM President's Statement Women's Roosevelt Memorial. . Mrs. John Henry Hammond; pres ident of the Woman's Roosevelt Memoral association, authorizes the following statement on the aims and purposes of the association, the national organization of American women that restoring the birth place of Theodore Roosevelt in New York City: "The Woman's Roosevelt Memor ial association was started almost immediately after Colonel Roose velt's death with a permanent abiect in view. Later the Roosevelt Me morial association was formed, but at no time has it been connected in any way with our association. Ln fortunatelv there has been some confusion in the mind of the public owing to the similarity in the names of the two organizations. While both associations are, I am sure, en Hrely sympathetic with the purposes of each' other, it is important for the public to know they are entirely sep arate and distinct. "The Woman's Roosevelt Memor ial association had from the first a definite plan, namely, the restoration of Theodore Roosevelt's birthplace. The sight of the birthplace and the adjoining property on East Twen tieth street have been purchased and completely paid for. An v architect has been "selected and the work of rebuilding and refurnishing the structures as they originally stood will be carried on actively this year. It is for this definite purpose that the Woman's Roosevelt Memorial association, independent ot any oin er organization, plans to ask the American people, especially the women of the country, for funds to complete this work and to -provide sufficient endowment for its upkeep and operation as a shrine of Amer icanism which people from the entire country will visit in increasing num bers as the years go on. "Just ss "the women of America restored Mount Vernon and assisted in the restoration of Lincoln's birth place at Hogdenyjlle, Ky., they have now set out nponNhis definite plan. In order., therefore,, that this work might always be connected with the v.omen of America, our association was incorporated as the Woman s Roosevelt Memorial association. The new 192Q sweaters are far brighter than those of lViy. Music at the Movies Must Improve to . Satisfy Public. ."People will 'one day come to see tliat the movties are an institution and not a frivojlous.way for wasting money. But en order that those movies 'may become an institution, worthy of the name, they must be improved, buifc up, developed, made effective, You understand, of course, that I use the term 'movies' in the connection of the entire : entertain ment, not only the pictures, but all the things that go with it to make up an evening's program." Hugo Ricsenfeld,.the author and finisher of the policy of the two most pretentious motion picture the aters in the country, sat hunched up in an obscure seat in a dimmed the ater where his first venture in mu sical comedy wag being given to the public. He lived up to no precon ceived ideas that have been given of an author on a first night. His hands were not clenched, he did not bite his nails. He did not snatch at his disordered hair. He couldn't. His hainwas not disordered. He did not fidget ahput in his seat and make people near Trim wonder if his con science troubled him. He did none of the things that books solemnly tell us are done by authors. The fact is worth repetition. And with his mind, for the moment, on the infant musical comedy, it was not to be thought that. Hugo Riesenfeid would forgtt the elder child, known as "intelligent music for the mov ing picture theater." "Those whose business it is to give moving pictures to the public can no longer presuppose that they are dealing with children easily paci fied. Theycannot say 'We give them good pictures that is enough. The muic is of no importance, as long as there is sound.' You say our audiences are composed, mainly, of middle-class people, foreigners, shop girls" a ioreign shrug of the shoulders conveyed the breadth of those audiences "and tha) they do not know good music from bad, or at least do not know it positively enough to demand the good. Ah I but that is wnere-vou are wrong. "Frequently after I have spent hours over my programs, . hours drilling my orchestra in tone shad ings' and in proper rhythms, after I have speculated and experimented with lighting effects proof I go to my, stand and before I have directed past a third of the first page, I feel an indefinable something that means unpleasant reaction on the part of my public. They have been offendet somehow by the- mjisic I have se lected, or disappointed. Perhaps have made it too gay, too sad-ho can I know but that they are hos tile to it, 1 know quickly enough. I must work! to change it. "There is progress in everything Progress in art, in letters," in music, even in labor. We must keep abreast of the times. The public is no longer content to drift into some little, silly, darkened, close theater to see a badly done picture, thrown jerkily on to a screen, one that is, perhaps, torn it demands the satis faction of its' subtler lenses. Its, sense of beauty must be met, under stood, satisfied. It must feel that it is 'receiving something good, not something merely haphazard Chris tian Science Monitor ; fftjj Mgl j fill , ' 11 Tor All Occasions W&ar& falyt&e Best is Served Hmiimwi.iHim& I &eli$hfsur friends ButteFiW a r-3a mmtm 1 m sm ar m mm mm m liiiiii P" . v jiiv . m w aa, hi wi is wa m m bum mm-mmm - I I Bl imic 11 A ...Hi ..UYWW mi -a ..tHmmmm II IX 1! Butter-Nut is a coffee of sociability and good feeling. Coffee has for centuries been the world' s social drink The first known Was in A. D. 1470, in Arabia. Coffee was then imported into Turkey and later into England, France and the Scandinavian countries. minima "free ,fADff Ail 1-1 . tM f. 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For instance, there are eighteen (18) different Varieties of coffee and eight (8) different grades, so that in our Butter-Nut Coffee we have a perfect blend, as the secret, is in as sembling the varieties of coffees of the best grades and blending them into one perfect drink, characteristic for9 its fragrance, richness and dcliciousness, 1 I I J 1 'iSS'' 111 V j at VOUR MCAL IS AS GOOD I S a inc. wurrtt YOU SUtVt VaWI ICC -.trillllliy.lllU55 ' Cimiii.iMwgBi'r DcUci' 111 Si m ' & : ""milling "III Omaha days during her curped life , - .. . , ...